Thomas J. Pritzker

Forbes released its 32nd Annual World Billionaires List on Tuesday, and although Griffin is No. 172 on the list, he places higher than any other Illinoisan.

Griffin founded and runs Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel, which manages more than $27 billion in assets. Forbes puts his real-time net worth at about $9.1 billion. He got his start in his Harvard dorm, where he began trading in 1987, according to Forbes. He put a satellite dish on the roof so he could nab real-time stock quotes.

It’s not the Chicago billionaire’s first time leading the pack of Illinoisans on a Forbes ranking. He topped the same list last year and...

Related "Thomas J. Pritzker" Articles

Ken Griffin must be getting comfortable on top.
Forbes released its 32nd Annual World Billionaires List on Tuesday, and although Griffin is No. 172 on the list, he places higher than any other Illinoisan.
Griffin founded and runs Chicago-based hedge...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the richest of them all? In Illinois, it's still Citadel's Ken Griffin, according to Forbes 31st annual World's Billionaires List.
The hedge fund founder leads a pack of 16 Illinois billionaires who made this year's...

Published in Chicago Tribune on March 21, 2017 — Print headline: "Griffin still ranks as richest in state - Forbes' billionaires list includes 16 Illinois residents - among them 5 named Pritzker"

If you've noticed fewer billionaires shopping for caviar at your local supermarket, you're not mistaken — Illinois has three fewer representatives among the nation's 400 wealthiest residents than it did last year, according to Forbes magazine.
While...

Forbes' 2015 list of the world's richest people contains two new names linked to the Chicago Bulls: NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and Jerry Reinsdorf, team chairman.
Reinsdorf, also chairman of the White Sox, has a net worth estimated at $1.3 billion....

Seventeen Illinoisans have made the latest Forbes 400 list of the nation's richest people.
The list, released Monday, includes four Illinois women and five members of Chicago's Pritzker family.
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin retained his title as...

More billionaires are born in Chicago than in any other U.S. city apart from New York, according to reports from two firms that investigate wealth.In fact, one in every 200 billionaires in the world is born in Chicago, according to wealth research firms...